Of Interest

List of fantastic Arizona beers and breweries

January 23, 2012

I love beer. Most people would probably consider me a beer snob in that I can’t stand Coors, Budweiser, or other popular brands. I like craft beer and exploring all the different tastes and styles from IPAs to stouts. Though if you really evaluated me to real “Beer Snob” standards I’m still very much of [...]

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Phoenix Ultimate Geek Smackdown – Are you Fan enough?

May 24, 2011

 
In brightest day, in blackest night, in a galaxy far, far away, the Geeks gather to do battle, and the question on everyone’s mind is… who will survive, and what will be left of them?
Only one will walk away supreme in the Phoenix Ultimate Geek Smackdown!
Many will enter Phoenix Comicon thinking they could hold this [...]

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Peek inside the Freestyle Custom Coke Machine

March 3, 2011

Shops around Phoenix have been rolling out the new customizable Coke machines. These are called Freestyle Coke machines and they let you make your own flavor from 106 different combos. The entire thing is driven by a touch screen, and has sub-menus to help you refine your flavor. For example, if you pick Diet Coke, the [...]

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Phoenix restaurant suggestions from Phoenix food fans

December 17, 2010

One of Phoenix’s shining features, to the perpetual consternation of my waistline, is an incredible array of good food. While it may take some driving to get there, if you’re willing to spend some time behind the wheel, tastiness abounds!
I was hit online with a request for local suggestions for where a vistor to the [...]

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Sharing my Items of Interest

July 8, 2010

Image by Getty Images via @daylife

While not blogging nearly as much as I should of late, I do still read voraciously online. I read blogs on everything from webcomics to tech to social media to screenwriting to skeptics to the inability to punctuate long lists of items in sentences to self-referential references*.
I’ve always lacked a [...]

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Getting Tased

June 26, 2010

Last week while I was at the Taser International offices, they said they would be willing to tase me if I wanted to know what it was like. I knew right away I had to try this out, and a quick poll on Twitter confirmed this should happen.
None of my coworkers were willing to give [...]

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Come see me Monologue with some Galapagos!

March 3, 2010

I’m a long time Improv fan, being a former member of the most excellent Oxymoron’Z Troupe, and a founding member of the Jester’Z Troupe here in the Valley. I haven’t performed in ages, but the topic still nibbles at me, which is what led to my interest in Improv + Social Media.  So I was [...]

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My Lobotomy

February 26, 2008

I just finished listening to an NPR Podcast narrated by Howard Dully.  At the age of 12, Howard was the youngest person to receive an “icepick lobotomy”.  He never spoke about his surgery with his father, or his step-mother who forced it onto him.   Now, as an adult, he tries to understand what happened to [...]

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Goin’ Tom Cruise Crazy!

January 16, 2008

If I ever go so nuts I’m fully Tom Cruise Crazy, I hope someone puts me out of my misery and sends me back to Xenu.¬† Fortunately, Jonathan Coulton (of Portal theme fame) has boldly gone where I hope never to go… and wrote a song about being Tom Cruise Crazy.¬† It’s a year + [...]

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Man with no legs takes pictures of those who stare

January 6, 2008

ABC has an amazing article about Kevin Connolly, who was born with no legs.  He gets himself around on a modified skateboard, and with a Silver Medal in the 2007 X Games he seems more active than most people I know.
He’s also started his own photography exhibit by taking pictures of people who stare at [...]

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